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Who would do the fining?

Hint: The people who run the government make their living by taking bribes and other acts of corruption that are a result of their regulations.

In the US, corruption on the transactional level (ie. lobbying congress, etc is out of scope here) is an exception that ultimately results in a government official going to jail. In a place like Argentina, corruption is a hidden tax that is reflected on nearly every transaction.

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